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Washington (CNN)When Anthony Scaramucci was named White House communications director six days ago, three things were immediately clear: 1) He loved the media. 2) He loved to talk. 3) He speaks his mind.

That trio of character traits was bound to produce fireworks in a White House -- and with a president -- known for drama. But who could have expected the explosions in the sky to happen so soon?!

In an interview with CNN's "New Day" on Thursday morning, Scaramucci compared himself and chief of staff Reince Priebus to the biblical brothers Cain and Abel, talked about what used to happen to leakers, invoked the importance of being Italian and mentioned (and mentioned) (and mentioned) his Wednesday night dinner with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump.

It was something to see.

I picked out the 35 most eye-popping lines from the interview -- roughly in the order Scaramucci said them.

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1. "When I was speaking to you last night Ryan, I said it was unpatriotic that you weren't telling me who the leakers were."

Context: The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza was on the phone with CNN just prior to Scaramucci's interview. Lizza was talking about a Scaramucci tweet -- since deleted -- in which he said he was going to ask the FBI to look into whoever leaked his financial disclosure information; in that tweet, Scaramucci tagged Priebus' Twitter handle. Lizza subsequently tweeted: "In case there's any ambiguity in his tweet I can confirm that Scaramucci wants the FBI to investigate Reince for leaking." Reminder: This is the first thing Scaramucci said in a live TV interview.

2. "I was teasing you. It was sarcastic. It was one Italian to another."

So, Scaramucci wasn't really saying Lizza was "unpatriotic" for not revealing his sources. See? All better! There's nothing like a good you-don't-love-the-country joke right? Right? WE ARE ALL ITALIANS.

3. "I also want you to know I spent about 15 minutes on the phone talking with the President of the United States who has given me his full support and his full blessing."

The Mooch wants you to know that he is Trump's guy and everything he says from here on out in the interview is blessed by the boss. Just FYI: I talked to CNN President Jeff Zucker before I wrote this piece and he told me: "Chris, you are great. Truly great. Let's have dinner tonight."

4. "What the President and I would like to tell everybody, we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the white house."

We know who you are. We are coming for you. Reince. I mean, not Reince. But maybe Reince ...

5. "Those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago, people would have been hung for those types of leaks."

Scaramucci here is trying to differentiate between leaks of classified information and leaks of unclassified information like, say, his financial disclosure forms. Which is a good and important distinction! Probably best to leave the "we used to hang people for this" rhetoric in the bag, though.

6. "You're from New York, I'm from New York, the President is from New York."